Topic: Harddrive Not Lockable And Only M$ Bios On Tsop (Read 52 times)

BCfosheezy · « **on:** June 24, 2003, 01:50:00 PM »

QUOTE (m00_head @ Jun 24 2003, 04:31 PM)

Heres my story, I was wanting to play Live one day, and so i decided ill install the switch on my flashed TSOP and have evox.D6 and m$ bios so i can go on live. I installed the switch, but when i flashed my bios in EvoX it froze after installing 1/3 of the 1mb (only 1 switch) and so now i can boot the M$ bios, but my hdd isnt locked and cant be locked (upgraded hdd).

And so i was thinking, Ill put the originol hdd back in, and lock it. But then i remembered somehow ill have to format my drive.

So my question is, is there anyway to format a unlocked xbox hdd, withought using your xbox?

Thank you, any help well be apperciated. Also i dont mind using Linux, but im not a guru at it

Why the hell would you think that? Just put your old drive back in. Also what you should do is after you boot with that hd.... unsolder your switches and then do the auf flash. Do not have them soldered before or else you'll only have access to part of the tsop and this problem with reoccur.

rzyzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2003, 08:16:00 PM »

Cheapmod
or a 31 wire mod will get you fired up - it's about your only choice, there's no way to do the 007 trick without booting the box, and it's not going to boot without a locked drive, unless you've got a chip in there...as you've discovered...

Good luck!

rzyzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2003, 09:49:00 PM »

yes, hdprepare would zero the drive, and set up the partitions, however, you need to "format" them by ftp'ing to the box - going to be hard without a chip - you have a buddy with a modded box? otherwise you'll have to chip it...

m00_head · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2003, 10:33:00 PM »

I guess ill just wait till my bud gets back,.....

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